The following was written as a sort of after thought to my most recent blog titled,' IRS Douglas Shulman: Agora Inc.,dailyreckoning,Sovereign Investor, Bill Bonner,Robert E. Bauman,pedophiles, money launderers in Ecuador,Uruguay ' and after reading Lila Rajiva's latest commentaries-lies about me on her disinfo and lie
webite themiindbodypolitic.com..,' IRS Douglas Shulman: Agora Inc.,dailyreckoning,Sovereign Investor, Bill Bonner,Robert E. Bauman,pedophiles, money launderers in Ecuador,Uruguay ' can be found at this link :

Note that Veteranstoday.com and its editor Gordon Duff as well as VeteransToday writer Lila Rajiva of Agora Inc have in common the fact that VeteransToday as well as Agora Inc are associated with ex CIA Director and Zionist who lied about Iraq's involvement in 9/11 on Fox news immediately after the incident.
And as you can see they worked together to attack Julian Assange using veteranstoday.com for that purpose

Dec 12, 2010 –(PartII of this ongoing series is now also available at Veterans Today). Let me first say that harassingJulian Assangefor having published leaked government.....Lila Rajivais the author of two books on mass psychology, The...

Note that war fraud Major Gordon Duff appears to be in the 'business' of penny stock fraud and other crimes against the American public that he prefers to call 'extensive experience in international banking' and met with penny stock money launderer Bud Burrell,(CMKX Diamonds,USXP,Endovasc,etc.) who has made threats against my life and is in turn connected to convicted stock fraudster and 'ex' Rothschild attorney in London.: http://www.veteranstoday.com/author/gordonduff/Gordon Duff is a Marine Vietnam veteran, a combat infantryman, and Senior Editor at Veterans Today. His career has included extensive experience in international banking along with such diverse areas as consulting on counter insurgency, surveillance technologies, intelligence analysis,defense technologies or acting as a UN diplomat and "special consultant."

Duff currently serves on the boards of the Adamus Group, one of the world's largest and energy technology firms and of a private financial institution participating in the Federal Reserve Banking group.

Gordon Duff has traveled to over 80 nations. His articles are published around the world and translated into a number of languages. Duff, military affairs analyst for Press TV, is regularly on TV and radio, a popular and sometimes controversial guest.

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Of course it must be remembered that Julian Assange claims 9/11 happened the way W Bush et.al. said it did and Mohamed Atta and his fifteen Saudi Arabian Al Qaedistas boarded those planes at Logan Airport Boston on 9/11/01 and took it over with their plastic cookie ciutters. Never mind the inconvenient truth that it was being guarded by Israelis best Shin Bet officers under supervision of Israeli money launderers and stock fraudsters,I mean security experts,Menachem Atzmon and the deceased Ezra Harel..And never mind that VeteransToday's Gordon Duff and Agora Inc.'s Lila Rajiva who untited their efforts to attack and defame Assange a while back are close associates of Gilad Atzmon the anti- Semitic Jew who is almost certainly a family relative of Menachem Atzmon of 9/11 infamy and whose ICTS International also allowed
Richard Reid 'the shoe bomber',(and Islamic terrorist of course),to fly to IsraEL TO VISIT HAMAS PRE 9/11/01 AND THEN TO BOARD AN AMERICAN AIRLINES FLIGHT ONE MONTH AFTER 9/11 AT DE GUALLE AIRPORT FRANCE WITH HIS SOPPOSED 'SHOE BOMB'.THEY ALSO ALLOWED THE SO-CALLED ISLAMIC 'CROTCH BOMBER' MUTALLAB TO BOARD FLIGHT
253 FROM SCHIPHOL AIRPORT AMSTERDAM THAT THEY HAVE CONTROLLED EVEN BEFORE 9/11 ON CHRISTMAS 2009 WITH HIS SO-CALLED 'CROTCH BOMB'.AND ON AND ON..........

I have considered that Julian Assange and Wikileaks might be covering up for massive Iseraeli money laundering after he was offered a million dollar book contract from Rupert Murdoch and also knowing personally that stock fraud incorporation by Israelis to defraud Americans was rampant and that the UK as well as Switzerland and a number of other 'offshore' countries were being used by them for this purpose.You can be sure that his critics Gordon Duff nor Lila Rajiva would expose this even if they had such a scandal on Assange because that is exactly what their own masters and bosses are doing as well.Lila Rajiva's only concern is that she isn't getting her fair share of stolen assets from her bosses at Agora Inc..

A diplomatic cable released by whistleblower website WikiLeaks has
shed new light on the mysterious activities of Israelis selling Dead Sea
beauty products at malls in New Zealand and the US.
The cable, prepared by the previous US ambassador to Israel, James
Cunningham, alleges immigration fraud, illegal labour, money laundering
and worker exploitation in an industry now worth a billion dollars.
The Sunday Star-Times revealed in April how Israeli workers selling
Dead Sea creams in malls had come to the attention of Immigration NZ and
other government agencies. When immigration officers visited the Sylvia
Park shopping centre in Auckland in February, they shut down one kiosk
where three salespeople were working illegally on visitor visas, but by
the time they arrived at a second kiosk at the other end of the mall,
the workers had fled.
The Star-Times approached several workers who claimed they were
unpaid "volunteers" who were selling the products "for Israel". They
could not say who they worked for.
We later discovered the company behind the kiosks was Dead Sea
Beauty (2006) Ltd, an "administrative provider" to another company, LVS
Retail.
The company structure matches that detailed in Cunningham's lengthy
and previously secret report, which tells how young Israelis, generally
those who have completed mandatory military service, are deceiving
customs officers, claiming they are tourists when they are planning to
work in mall kiosks in New Zealand, the US, Canada, Europe and
Australia.
The aim is to make as much money as they can quickly, before
returning to Israel. They are attracted to the scam because post-army
jobs are scarce and salaries low and they need a way to finance their
studies or travels.
Cunningham says the "Dead Sea fraud" began in a low-key fashion
several years ago but has escalated in the past three years. The report
says the Israelis are recruited over the internet, are "well-coached"
for their immigration interviews and are given instructions on which
airports are likely to turn them around....

I started to notice. In actual fact, the DeadSeaKit.com website has
absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with genuine Dead Sea beauty
products. The first oddity I noticed was that, despite the website
seeming to be set up and registered by a London company, it has a PO Box
return address in Israel for customers to supposedly return products they are unsatisfied with.
This made me curious so I decided to check the Whois servers to find
out which address had been used to register the website's domain name
and how many changes, etc had been made since it was set up. As it turns
out, whoever set the website up had registered it at 788-790 Finchley
Road, London which I soon discovered is an address massively associated
with overwhelming amounts of serious organized crime! As it turns out
this address had actually, so far, been used to fraudulently pose as
over 930 legitimate companies with the purpose of defrauding customers
and then laundering that money back to Israel.
Some of the companies these scammers had been posing as were: Capital
Gardens, The Company Shop, Educational Services, Temple Fortune,
Financial Global Assets Management, Mina Corp, Eyre International,
Racix, Longbay Trading, National Insolvency Helpline, Minza Ltd and
many many more. It also turned out that there were reports of
paedophilia associated with this address; something which made me
cringe. Further research showed that many governments were already aware
of this scam and had been carrying out investigations for quite some
time and even congress had been called in to try to pin these criminals
down.
The more I researched the address the more unbelievable the truth
about these scammers was becoming. A gigantic conspiracy against the
government had become apparent originating from the London address.
Here's a quote from a website I found on the issue (and the source
link):"I have previously reported that two British companies were involved in a massive scam to siphon off US Defence contract money
and pass it on into the private sector. However, more information has
now become available that clearly shows that our government may have
been implicated in covering up the two named British companies.Would it not be logic for our government to carry out its own
investigation into these two companies as a back up to the US Congress,
especially that they were both registered here in the United Kingdom?It was as a result of the fine work carried out by my associate
Gordon Bowden that more information has now become available and which
clearly shows that our government has intentionally turned a blind eye
to this disgraceful fraud."Source:http://eyreinternational.wordpress.com/2012/06/15/congress-investigating-british-companies-but-not-our-own-government-why/
To my even further amazement, I then discovered that Julian
Assange's website WikiLeaks had released a diplomatic cable which shed
new light on mysterious activities of Israeli's selling Dead Sea beauty
products at malls in New Zealand and US. Consider all the controversy
currently surrounding JulianAssange and his extradition.Source:http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/5519017/WikiLeaks-delves-into-Dead-Sea-sales-scam
Further reading suggested that the money is being fed back from Israel to the Italian mafia. In
June 2008 18 people had been arrested by the Italian police in various
parts of Italy. However, the arrest warrants had actually been issued by
Magistrates in Florence as part of Investigation 899. The Italian
police operation was called Operation Premium and was regarding a
telephone scam to an 899 number.
Clearly the only way these criminals are ever going to be stopped is to make people aware of their presence.

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I only noticed today that Lila Rajiva has now claimed I'm part of the criminals of Agora Inc that she has been employed by and worked for and written hack journalism for and the fraudulent Agora dailyreckoning.com
'book titled,Mobs,Markets and Messiahs',that was even promoted for them by their Israeli and Zionist friends of The New York Times ! Well Lila as you have been an office girl for Agora Inc how about sending me my salary ? Better yet why don't you get your colleagues to empty out their pocket chasnge and reimburse me for my losses from James Davidson's and Porter Stansberry's Endovasc biotecch fraud that ripped me off and that was protected at the highest level of the U.S.SEC or Securities Exchange Common and the U.S.government itrself that the traitor Davidson is so connected to including not only Bill Clinton but dady Bush,George Herbert Walker Bush,before that !? And no Liar Rajiva Endovasc was no more 'naked shorted' than your pal Geico billionaire's son,Patrick Byrne's,Overstock.com was.It was an illegal pump and dump you shameless prostitute!
Note that it has been Lila Rajiva who has attacked a blogger Jennifer Lake for having dared to consider that there may by a connection between Agora Inc. and the Rothschild financial crime family.And while it may be coincidence that one former oil company held by thje Rothschild's was called Agora as well as a company in Colombia with Rothschild connections called agora as well - it is a simple fact that Agora Inc.s money launderer stock fraudster and murder suspect,Porter Stansberry, brags of being the only American to ever be editor of Fleet Street in London.Agora Inc.'s UK Lord William Rees-Mogg who is also a co-author of scammy investment books with Agora Inc founder James Dale Davidson is connected to Fleet Street Letter as well as connected to the highest levels of UK elites invcluding of course the Rothschild financial crime family.

FUNNY THAT LILA RAJIVA CLAIMS I'M AN AGORA INC CONNECTED PERSON WHEN SHE CAN FIND MY RIPPOFFREPORT FROM 2003 COMPLAINING ABOUT BOTH JAMES DALE DAVIDSON AS WELL AS MY EX 'BROKER' CHARLES SCHWAB'S INVOLVEMENT IN AND PROFIT FROM THE ENDOVASC 'BIOTECH' PENNY STOCK FRAUD AND ILLEGAL PUMP AND DUMP THROUGH THEIR 'MARKET MAKER' THAT WAS SHORTLY AFTER SOLD TO UBS AND WHOSE COLLAPSE IN SHARE PRICE AGORA INC'S JIM, OR JAMES DALE, DAVIDSON FRAUDULENLTLY BLAMED ON 'NAKED HORT SELLING',A LIE THAT LILA HERSELF IS GUILTY OF PASSING AROUND THE INTERNET !AT LEAST LILA DEAREST IS IN 'GOOD COMPANY' WITH CENTI-MILLIONAIRES AND BILLIONAIRES LYING ABOUT STOCKS THEY MANIPULATE BEING 'NAKED SHORTED' AS WELL.EVEN THE EX SEC CHAIR CHREIS COX DIDN'T LEAVE HIS POST UNTIL FANNIE MAE AND FREDDIE MAC THAT AGORA INC BRAGS OF 'PREDIDICTING' THE COLLPSE OF COLLAPSED AND COX POSTED IT COLLAPSED DUE TO 'NAKED SHORT SELLING' THAT NO CREDIBLE SECURITIES ANALYST AGREES WITH BUT YET HERE IT IS POSTED ON THE 'INVESTOR EDUCATION' WEBSITE OF THE U.S.SECURITIES EXCHANGE COMMISSION !:

Rajiva claims I must be an Agora Inc employee like herself because I haven't denounced EVERY single member of that financial fraud crime family,'like CEO
Myles Norin, or their attorney, Matt Turner, or Agora Financial chief,
Addison Wiggin, or some of their star traders, 'like Alan Knuckman.''
'Funnier still, Ryals never mentions a former senior employee,
Christoph Amberger, whose blog about the company’s marketing shenanigans
was shut down in 2011. Reportedly, this was after he was paid to shut
up, that is, held to a non-disclosure agreement by threat of litigation.
'Instead, Ryals waffles on about Davidson, who is safely beyond reach
of prosecution, and, in any case, seems to have more than paid for any
sins by his investigations into the Clinton mafia and his insights into
the manipulation of the stock markets; Bonner, who probably has no legal
liability, as he’s not an officer of the company, and is too wealthy,
too cautious, too smart, and too well-connected to get into trouble
anyway;and Stansberry, who is already damaged goods and unlikely to
get hurt any worse by innuendo.''''.....''
If Lila dearest will provide a complete list of all her sleazy colleagues at Agora Inc I'll curse them all individually.While Lila was allowed to post her commentary on her Agora Inc scumbag colleague
Christoph Amberger's website before he removed it and fawn over his sword fighting scars I who told him he was an East German Stassi Nazi among other things,had my posts removed !In particular he deleted my commentary over the strange death of Agora Inc.'s Rey Rivera who took a 14 floor fall from the Belvedere
Hotel in Baltimore in 2006 the year after Lila Rajiva began emailing me about James Dale Davidson and then announced she was an employee of Agora and at the same time coincidentally when Porter Stansberry emailed me and invited me to Baltimore to 'prove' Agora was a legit company !Below is what Lila Rajiva's Christoph Amberger had to say to me -a death threat just like Lila's Overstock.com pal Bud Burrell had posted on a scam 'stop naked short selling' website,thesanitycheck.com funded by Lila's other pal Geico billionaire Jack's son,Patrick Byrne of Overstock.com ! I wonder how she forgets to mention such 'minor' details ? You'd think after the death of Rey Rivera that Lila's Agora Inc pals would be a little more 'conservative' about their death threats and inuendos......
Note also that Davidson was involved with the Reagan Bush regime before he became a big backer of Bill Clinton and then turned against him and claimed he called an oold childhood friend who followed his political carreer to Wasshington,D.C..Davuidson also hinted in his right wing pro war newsmax.com that he helped Bill Clinton 'cook the books' or launder money jusyt as he apparently did for George Herbert Walker 'Poppy' Bush before that. He claims inb his scammy books,Blood in the Streets' and 'The Sovereign Individual' to have 'predicted' to mortagage and stock collapse of 1987 but it is more likely he was one of those who orchestrated it just as Agora Inc. and Porter Stansberry claim to havre predicted the collpse of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac but were rerally insiders behind the massive shorting and dumping of insider shares !
Here's Lila Rajiva lieing about a term only her pervert friends could dream up called 'naked short selling' or 'naked shorting' which begamn shortly after 9/11 by James Dale Davidson and his Canadian penny criminal associates Brent Pierce and Grant Atkins and claimed at first that biottech fraudss they held most of the shares in and issued more to dump without informing others who bought shares were 'naked shorted' when in fact they were illegal pump and dump scams.This of course causes the price per share to collapse even if they are able to promte the shares and get others to buy them it can never be fast enough to avoid the collape of share price.Then they lioe like Lila Rajiva does below while filling their bank accounts usually offshore with money they stole in the American penny stock market from Americans ! Lila Rajiva should be in jail for promoting the 'naked shorting lie' as well !In truth Lila gets it mixed up as usual.I never said I bought Endovasc shares because Davidson recommended it but because it claimed to hold Stanford University patents for angiogenesis or blood vessel formation that was true but it was all for fraud and money laundering scam and Endovasc shares were pumped up 500% staring just before 9/11 and for 2 weeks after while all other shares were falling.I only later realized the Israel Grin or Grinshpon brothers were involved as well who are notorious for penny fraud and money laundering against Americans to fill their offshore accounts.:

This is Ryals’ broad-brush smear-by-numbers technique. He hates Davidson, because he (Ryals) claims he bought Endovasc
on the recommendation of Davidson and lost his inheritance in it.
Therefore, anyone even remotely associated with Agora, which Davidson
originally formed, must be equally hate-worthy.
What’s more, if you read up a bit on Endovasc and Ryals’ investment in it, you’ll find that Ryals accusations against Davidson, at least in the matter of Endovasc, are ill-founded or confused. One businessman who analyzed the story came to the conclusion that Ryals lost his money through his own foolishness and that Endovasc was done to death by nakedshort-selling and not pump-and-dump.

And the luie about Patrick Byrne who founded NCANS or National Coalition Against Naked Short Selling to continue the lies about wothless stock frauds price collpse being due to 'nakerd shorting'.Patrick Byrne and his Deepcapture scam site claim that LOM of Bermuda has some kind of Al Qaeda or Islamic terrorist connection when David Marchant points out that Davidson and his Lord William Rees-Mogg were major share holders for years !So who is correct Lila Rajiva David Marchant or tyour cowardly hero who threatenss my life (and who is connected to Davidson ands Agora Inc.), spoiled Geico billionaire's son Patrrick Byrne of Overstock.com ?

Instead of wising up, Ryals then starts putting together two and two
from various half-digested articles by legitimate financial journalists
and comes up with eleven thousand-and-one:
Google, Charles Schwab, Davidson, Wikipedia, LOM, Lord Rees-Mogg,
Lila Rajiva, James Angel, Patrick Byrne, Brent Baker, Raging Bull, David
Marchant, Walter Block, Ron Paul, the Pentagon shooter, the
crotch-bomber, Christopher Cox, Asra Nomani, Gordon Duff, Sibel Edmonds,
Alex Jones, Lew Rockwell, Bill Bonner, Judd Bagley, Michael Zwebner,
Jeb Bush, Steve Forbes, Gary Weiss’ wife, James Quinn, Bud Burrell, J.
Christoph Amberger, Mark Mitchell, the Stasi, RAW, William Colby, the
SEC, Canadian regulators, the Malaysian stock exchange and a further
cast of thousands, have all been conspiring to defraud him..and other
petty investors…through an elaborate CIA-run penny-stock operation
that’s concealed by a fiendishly clever smoke-screen about
naked-shorting by the big banks.As a matter of fact, some of the names above (like LOM) are indeed connected to fraud.
(See Patrick Byrne’s site, Deep Capture, as well as David Marchant’s Off-Shore Alert and Lucy Komisar’s investigations at The Komisar Scoop.I have discussed these issues with the first two).
But not the way Ryals spins it.The CIA does in fact finance technology penny-stocks and partner with venture capital. And does indeed launder money through the stock-market. But Ryals is simply botching the analysis of it for his own purposes.

Posted: 12/20/2007 6:53:12 PMBy: David MarchantI've been reporting on LOM for many, many years. I was working in Bermuda when the company was launched.I don't recall LOM ever threatening to sue me,
however. To the best of my knowledge and recollection, the company has
never made such a threat.Of interest is that, when I looked at the holding
company's share register several years ago, Agora's James Dale Davidson
was on it, as was Lord William Rees-Mogg, who is also involved with
Agora.

David Marchant

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(September 1,2012 - Note that since posting this blog Agora Inc. Hindue prostitute who says that James Dale Davidson has somehow atones for his 'sins' -which is insulting for a Hindue wingnut to call illegal stock fraud and money laundering by the Christian term 'sins' when they are major financial crimes against mainly Americans and James Dale Davidson should be in jail as his financial crimes are probably much greater than Bernie Madoff's ! And Lila Rajiva whether or not she profited from Agora Inc.'s penny stock frauds directly or those of her ex Agora Inc colleague Rey Rivera whose death prevents him from speaking out abouy her as well as Porter Stansberry's involvement- she as a prostitute for Bill Bonner James Dale Davidson Porter Stansberry and the Rothschild connected UK Lord William Rees-Mogg has indeed stolen money dirctly from me and others defrauded by them !She also now acknowledges that I did indeed contact her Stasi NAZI PAL Christof Ambergris but removes the part about Amergris motive of creating a blog critical of Agora and Porter Stansberry with the purpose of bribing them to shut up - a fantasy Lila has also shared in which is again only stealing more money from people like myself who should have their money stolen by her employees and colleagues returned to us not to her or her pal Ambergris !)

In fairness to others born Hindue who certainly are NOT all right wing fascists and who are themselves critical of some of the injustices of the Hindue caste system that contributed no doubt to making Islam an asttractivew religion to Hindues who were lower on the totem pole or Hindue pecking order centuries ago when Islam invaded India,it should be pointed out that Lila dearest actually acknowledges a right wing Christian and thus probably CIA connection to her hidden life in India by stating that she worked with and for the 'Christian aid organization
(World Vision)' there.I would suggest that Lila Rajiva or whatever its real name is does a Google search of 'World Vision CIA'.

''I’ve worked
in India (for a couple of months) for a Christian aid organization
(World Vision) - helping with promotional material for potential donors
to medical care for the poor. I mention it because I’ve read that some
Christian mission and aid organizations have ties with the CIA. But, if there were any moles sniffing around, I didn’t know any of them.'' - Lila Rajiva

Is LilaRajiva a CIA agent?

This is for whoever is nursing a misplaced anxiety about my possible affiliation and frantically conducting searches into it…
NO. I am not now, nor have I ever been, nor plan to be, a CIA
agent, flunky, or stooge…(well, on that last — one can never tell. It’s
possible I’ve posted articles which were concocted as disinformation,
but if so, that would be pure error and I probably mentioned somewhere
that I wasn’t sure about the authenticity of the information - I
usually don’t touch topics where I can’t tell if what’s going on is
staged…)
The closest I got to the CIA was at a dinner party two years ago, when I met the former head of the psychic research division at the CIA. (There was one…it was shut down, so they say…more on that at another time).
We had a lengthy conversation about the CIA,
Aurobindo, and mind-body research. I still get circulars from the
outfit he runs now which develops forecasting systems for business.
He’s an engineer and fighter pilot, who builds planes in his spare time -
but we share interests in Rudolph Steiner and philosophy.
So much for the Mata Hari thing. Besides that, I’ve worked
in India (for a couple of months) for a Christian aid organization
(World Vision) - helping with promotional material for potential donors
to medical care for the poor. I mention it because I’ve read that some
Christian mission and aid organizations have ties with the CIA. But, if there were any moles sniffing around, I didn’t know any of them.
As anyone who follows this blog would know, any espionage or
terrorist organization who tried to recruit me would be shooting itself
in the foot - as big- mouthed as I am.
I’d probably be blogging the whole thing…

Below one email from Lila Rajiva and Agora Inc's pal, East German Stassi Nazi, Christof Amberger.:

Secret Archives Press LLC

4/16/11

to me

Golly gee. There's more of you?

Remember
the spider. And look before you cross the road. There's roadbikes, and
sometimes trucks whose breaks may not work! Just sayin... - Chris Amberger

Some of my communication with Chris Amberger:

Tony Ryals

4/15/11

to Secret

Chris Hamberger,
Why didn't you at least disclose your biased involvement with the
Agora Inc.- Oxford Club - Goldcor murder suspect Mark Ford or 'Michael
Masterson' when you first communicated with me ? Why don't you use his
real name when he endorses your brilliant 'business journalism' ?Does
the rePUTAable Agora Inc 'reporter' and great exposer of Abu Graibe
know that besides being a finasncial psychic on a par with your
colleague Porter Stansberry that you are also a friend to MASTERSON OF
THE AGORA OXFORD GOLCOR FRAUD AND MONEY LAUNDERING
OPERATION ? She'd be shocked,shocked tell you.To me that's a bad than the
Stasi rumor and in fact you even allow him to tout your money laundering frauds
just like you were Porter Stansberry or James Dale Davidson himself !And because
Lila dearest is such a better professional blog commentater and has all that Agora Stink
of Death credibility I don't,I quopte her very own Goldcor Agora Stuink article to lend
greater credibility.However Lila is lying as usuasl when she says it is original research
as you must know yourself.
Tony Ryals

'As to Mark Ford, he's been a consultant to Agora since 1993, 2 or 3
years after Goldcor and 1 yr or more later than the OC acquisition
thru Agora. He started using "Michael Masterson" as a pen name around
2000 for his ETR e-letter and his marketing consulting/book
business.¡- Chistoph Amberger

Five years after its initial publication, J. ChristophAmberger’s Hot
Trading Secrets: How to get in and out of the market with Huge Gains,
is even more practical than it was when it first hit the shelves.

“In this book, Christoph not only lays out the analytical approaches
of his ambitious young team of editors, but also provides you with his
big-picture view of how he sees the next five years unfold in the
global markets. It’s no prety picture. Worse even, Christoph has an
uncanny track record of being right in his analyses and forecasts. But
depsite the looming crisis, this book has a very optimistic message:
By explaining how his analysts harness each move in the markets for
fun and profits, he provides you with the tools needed to meet this
crisis head-on — enabling you to come out not only wiser, but
potentially vastly richer.”

The most interesting part of this little history is that the Royal
Society of Liechtenstein was sold off, changing its name to the Oxford
Club, which has been since then a part of Agora Inc.

The Brown death was never seriously investigated, say some SEC
officials, who believe it was a murder.

What’s even more interesting is that Nadel’s Chief Operating Office,
Mark Ford, who was also banned from selling stocks directly as a
result of the settlement with the SEC, changed his name to Michael
Masterson, and followed the Royal Society of Liechtenstein to Agora
Inc., as part of Oxford Club and as a consultant.).

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Also interesting in the list Lila Rajiva provides above of her fellow Agora Inc criminals that I am 'guilty' of not persuing,that she doesn't mention either the Agora CIA parasite in Argentina,Douglas Casey, nor her pal the Agora Inc CIA 'economist' or penny stock promoter, Mark Skousen.I wonder why !?

Note that the Pentagon shooter John Bedell was also like Lila Rajiva and her 'libertarian' gang members at Agora Inc and Lew Rockwell website all Ludwig Von Mises fans just as they are Ayn Rand fans,etc..And Ron Paul is part of their gold touting criminal enterprise as well.:

by Lila Rajiva
'I even thought Agora itself was encouraging the story,(i.e. that Agora Inc. is connected to the Rothschild financial crime family network) , a view shared
by at least one other credible journalist. For the same reason, I
suspect that Tony Ryals, the cyberbully behind all the negative postings
about me, isn’t half as insane as he pretends to be. In fact, I think
he has indirect ties to Agora himself, since he never mentions the
people there who have actual legal responsibility for things, like CEO
Myles Norin, or their attorney, Matt Turner, or Agora Financial chief,
Addison Wiggin, or some of their star traders, like Alan Knuckman.''
'Funnier still, Ryals never mentions a former senior employee,
Christoph Amberger, whose blog about the company’s marketing shenanigans
was shut down in 2011. Reportedly, this was after he was paid to shut
up, that is, held to a non-disclosure agreement by threat of litigation.
'Instead, Ryals waffles on about Davidson, who is safely beyond reach
of prosecution, and, in any case, seems to have more than paid for any
sins by his investigations into the Clinton mafia and his insights into
the manipulation of the stock markets; Bonner, who probably has no legal
liability, as he’s not an officer of the company, and is too wealthy,
too cautious, too smart, and too well-connected to get into trouble
anyway; and Stansberry, who is already damaged goods and unlikely to
get hurt any worse by innuendo.
But leaving intriguing theories about the cyber-underworld in which
Ryals and his rants reside, I’m still not sure what the Rothschild
connections to Agora really amount to. The best I can say is I’m much
more willing to believe some people there profit from them..........'

Now that I’ve come to think the whole “Rothschild” conspiracy is
something more than fiction, I’ve also begun to look at Ron Paul with a
more critical eye.
So that’s where I come from on that.
Now, for my own credibility on the subject, given that I too have a connection to Agora:
This is what I have to say.
Except for the attacks following my pieces on Assange (by Tom Ussher
at RealLibertarian Christian) and a legal threat at DailyBell (by
someone calling himself Al Kyder), and a couple of other things, one
hundred percent of the negative posts about me on the net stem from
this one supposedly crazy person, who seems to have an indirect
connection to Agora.....

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In regards to my reposting Rajiva's revenge story against Bill Bonner and Agora Inc about the Goldcor fraud of Agora Inc and its Oxford Club( that emerged out of the Goldcor fraud) ,it was done because Lila kept removing it froim the internet and then reposting it no doubt hoping to be bribed by Agora like her Agora Inc hero colleague the Stasi Nazi Christoph Amberger. Lila was angered by Agora and Bill Bonner, not because of their frauds against investors and particularly Americans such as myself, but because they didn't pay her more or 'treat her well' Lila Rajiva has this to say which you can find in more complete detail further below.:

Lila Rajiva:

I am “covering up” forAgora, Byrne, the government, the CIA, etc. in some way.

7. False. Actually,Ryals’ knowledge aboutGoldcorand other matters is is taken from my site. Apparently, despite obsessing aboutAgorafrom 2002 onward (some nine years of non-stop fixation), he was unable to do the simple research that would have pulled up the information.

Far from being some deep, dark secret, some of Mr. Masterson’s past history is available on a forum debating the merits of one ofAgora’s related outfits. There are multiple links there referencingMasterson,and those links have been up for several years. They are common knowledge among insiders at the company. All that was needed was some deeper digging and connection of dots. That I supplied, because I had the background knowledge to know what I was looking for.

My interest was less in Mr. Masterson as it was in JoelNadel, his mentor, who might (or might not) have a larger significance in the bigger financial picture. The issue wouldn’t even have come into the ambit of my blogging had it not coincided with the Madoff story, as well as elements of the 9-11 story.

I did not feel that I was the appropriate person to address the issue, precisely because I am an immigrant and NOT related to intelligence. I felt it was better some native-born American outfit working with government (such as Deep Capture) take a look at it. That is quite an appropriate way to proceed and has nothing to do with covering up. Any sane person would realize that an immigrant cannot write exposes about national security-related issues in their adopted country without running significant professional and personal risks. Aside from anything else, they would lack credibility and become vulnerable to accusations of spying or propagandizing themselves.

...............

Note Agora Inc.'s and Goldcor's JoelNadel was also involved as owner of Florida Governor Jeb Bush's and Wally Hilliard's Huffman Aviation in Venice where Mohamed Atta and his Saudi pals hung out or partyed while waititg for 9/11 to happen - or for the Israelis of ICTS International at Logan Airport Boston to give them the green light.
Even Agora Inc connected 'conspiracy theorist' or conspiracy disinfo agent, Alex Jones of prisonplanet.com etc., whose voice was used to dub Agora Inc murder suspect Porter Stansberry's endofamerica2011.com that was used to tout gold price and con naive investors to send him and Agora more of their money, has Agora Inc.'s and Goldcor's or Oxford Club's mentions Nadel in regard to ownership of Venice,Florida's Huffman Aviation where Egytian Mohamed Atta waited to command his 15 trusty not Saudis;(NOT Iraquis!),to takeover Logan from the Israelis and apparently destroy airport video surveillence of their doing so and board flioghts 175 and 11 INTO THE WTC ON THAT FATEFUL MORNING OF 9/11/01.:

Jul 27, 2009 – Art Nadel, the recent owner of Huffman Aviation accused of running a Ponzi scheme which allegedly stole almost $400 million from investors, ...And ICTS International and its CEO Menachem Atzmon whp allowed Mohamed Atta and gang to board at Logan Boston on 9/11,if indeed they ever boarded,has a Rothschild financial crime family conection as well.:

Von Estorff would later provide the yet-to-be formed House ofRothschildan...Voltaire, a revolutionary who held liberal religious views, had written in aletterto King....the Baltic Exchange (shipping contracts),Fleet Street(home of publishing...

Lilaat TheDailyReckoning

I’ve
updated and added links to this page several times. Many of the links
are to stock message-boards rather than to mainstream articles, because I
believe the discussion around these articles is just as important as
the original articles and because the story of the financial scandal
first broke on threads like these, not in the mainstream.

I’ve
noted some of my changes and the time when I made them, but not all,
because the piece becomes almost unreadable with so many notes and
corrections added.

Suffice to say, it’s a work in progress and I will continue to add new information and links as I see fit.

I also blogged on the appearance of former CIA chief William Colby’s name on anAgoranewsletter andAgora’s association with leading newsman of the British establishment, Lord Rees-Mogg.

Some of my findings were then lifted from my blog by the very people who now criticize me for “covering up” forAgora.

At
this point, I’ve chosen not to post much more on the subject, beyond
what’s necessary to defend my reputation, as I don’t believe that my
posting on it can really help one way or other. My one-time employment
byAgorawould
make a certain kind of critic always think I was “covering” for them.
Another kind of critic would always suspect me of being biasedagainstthem.

There
are also many serious legal issues involved, of which the average
alternative blogger knows nothing and usually doesn’t care to learn.

That’s
in line with the truly pathetic standards of modern
journalism/blogging, where personal vilification, plagiarism, and
outright lies are the order of the day.

So
we have the sterile and truth-less world of the corporate media on one
hand, and then there’s the irresponsible fact-less hysteria of the
alternative press.

Between these two, the mere writer is road-kill…

Libels About Me Repeated By TonyRyalsSince 2007

1. I am a penny stock “fraudster”

1.
False. The truth is I have never sold a stock or a penny-stock ever.
Any investment advice I ever gave professionally can be found in notes
in theDailyReckoningthat can be found below. I edited theDailyReckoningcolumn,
did some real estate research (looking for property that Mr. Bonner
might be interested in purchasing). researched real estate and market
conditions, and wrote ONE investment report on Goldman Sachs(which led to this article in Money Week).

Most
of my time was spent on writing and editing “Mobs, Messiahs and
Markets.” I was hired for 4 hours PT work in January 2007 and signed a
book contract the following summer (May 2007). Do you really think that
I could have found time to tout stocks when I was editing 4 hours per
day, researching and co-writing the book (that was originally 1000 pages
before it was cut down).

All
in exactly one year flat, while writing my own articles, traveling
around the world with a laptop, house-hunting for myself and doing my
own (very small time) trading? There are not enough hours in the day for
me to have been touting stocks or running any newsletter, with all
that.

Ryalsis fabricating this out of whole cloth.

2. I have a George Tenet connection.

2.
False. I have never met, spoken to, or even seen George Tenet in my
life. I don’t think I’ve even read or written much about him. Senior
people atAgoraInc. might know him. How does it follow that I know him? Bogus, rubbish. I was atAgorafrom
January 2006 - October 2007 and wrote the book from May 2007 - August
2007. In other words, I was there solely for the purpose of writing, not
selling stocks and that is a documented fact.

3. I am an illegal alien.

3.
False. I’m an American citizen and have been one for over 15 years. My
money is earned and spent in this country. My education dollars were
spent here. My relatives live here.Ryalshas
a lot of nerve to use this term since he doesn’t live here anymore nor
has he apparently done anything for the country for the last several
years, except attack companies on stock-boards, while dragging his
personal antipathies into third-hand political diatribes hatched at long
distance in that famous haven of progressive sentiment and judicial
probity, Guatemala.

4.
I “posed” as a far-left progressive when writing “The Language of
Empire” and then revealed myself as a far-right extremist in my second
book.

4.
False. Anyone who’s read my first book will see it is far from being
the work of a “bleeding-heart” leftist or a diatribe against America,
not withstanding the blurbs (collected by my publisher) from left-wing
writers. It is in fact quite scholarly and even-handed and is most
concerned with mass-control techniques used by the state. It is was
actually intended to be a college text, which it is.

My
second book is equally non-partisan. I object to rigid ideological
divisions and in both books have described such divisions as a technique
of state-control. Apparently,Ryalslacks the intellectual ability to distinguish that considered position from opportunism.

My
positions on the police state, on imperial wars, on torture, and on
financial crime have stayed the same since I began writing. I have
repeatedly expressed my differences from standard left-wing sites like
Counterpunch, as well as from standard right-wing libertarian sites like
Cato and Lew Rockwell.

The writing closest to my thinking comes from the Independent Institute.

For
example, I have openly criticized the more controversial writing on
LRC, by Walter Block, Herman Hoppe, and Stephan Kinsella, for faulty
reasoning. To mymind,
the word “extremism” - often applied to these writers - has become a
propaganda term. I couldn’t care less how “extreme” they are. I do care
that they don’t seem to reason all that closely, at least in the pieces
of theirs I’ve read.

5. I am paid byAgoraInc. to write my blog.

5. False. My contract on the book was with John Wiley and the only thingAgoraInc.
paid for was my editorial and research/PR work for Mr. Bonner, while I
was writing the book. I stopped being paid by them shortly after the
book was published. While I worked for them, I was never a full-time
employee and I was mostly out of the country while the book was being
written. I have never been paid byAgorato write anything since the book came out.

Take
a look at what’s on my blog. Do you think any company that wants to
enter the mainstream financial world would pay me to write the kind of
stuff I do?

6.
My boss was James Dale Davidson, notorious for front-running stocks
and promoting the “Vince Foster was murdered” theory on various
right-wing sites.

6. False. Davidson had been bought out ofAgoraInc.
by the time I was hired (Dec 2005- Jan 2006), so neither directly nor
indirectly was he ever a supervisor or boss in any way, shape, or form.
I have never corresponded with him or seen him. In fact, I first heard
of him fromRyalswho, when I was hired, asked me to ask if he was still there. I did and was told he wasn’t.

This isRyals’broad-brush smear-by-numbers technique. He hates Davidson, because he (Ryals)
bought Endovasc on the recommendation of Davidson and lost his
inheritance in it. Therefore, anyone even remotely associated withAgora, which Davidson originally formed, must be equally hate-worthy. This is insanity, not truth-telling.

What’s more, if you read up a bit more on Endovasc andRyals’ investment in it, you’ll find thatRyalsaccusations against Davidson, at least in the matter of Endovasc, are ill-founded or confused. One businessman who analyzed the storycame to the conclusion thatRyalslost
his money through his own stupidity and that Endovasc was done to death
by naked short-selling and not pump-and-dump. Be that as it may, if you
throw your entire inheritance into a get-rich-quick scheme of some kind
(what else is dumping money into a biotech stock in hopes of a quick
surge in price?), you share at least 50 percent of the responsibility if
you lose it. Instead of wising up,Ryalsthen
starts putting together two and two from various half-digested articles
by legitimate financial journalists and comes up with eleven
thousand-and-one:

As
a matter of fact, some of the names above (like LOM) are indeed
connected to fraud (see Patrick Byrne’s Deep Capture). But not the wayRyalsspins it.

7. I am “covering up” forAgora, Byrne, the government, the CIA, etc. in some way.

7. False. Actually,Ryals’ knowledge aboutGoldcorand other matters is is taken from my site. Apparently, despite obsessing aboutAgorafrom
2002 onward (some nine years of non-stop fixation), he was unable to do
the simple research that would have pulled up the information.

Far
from being some deep, dark secret, some of Mr. Masterson’s past history
is available on a forum debating the merits of one ofAgora’s related outfits. There are multiple links there referencingMasterson,and
those links have been up for several years. They are common knowledge
among insiders at the company. All that was needed was some deeper
digging and connection of dots. That I supplied, because I had the
background knowledge to know what I was looking for.

My interest was less in Mr. Masterson as it was in JoelNadel,
his mentor, who might (or might not) have a larger significance in the
bigger financial picture. The issue wouldn’t even have come into the
ambit of my blogging had it not coincided with the Madoff story, as well
as elements of the 9-11 story.

I
did not feel that I was the appropriate person to address the issue,
precisely because I am an immigrant and NOT related to intelligence. I
felt it was better some native-born American outfit working with
government (such as Deep Capture) take a look at it. That is quite an
appropriate way to proceed and has nothing to do with covering up. Any
sane person would realize that an immigrant cannot write exposes about
national security-related issues in their adopted country without
running significant professional and personal risks. Aside from anything
else, they would lack credibility and become vulnerable to accusations
of spying or propagandizing themselves.

Since I put up those links in 2009,Agorahas
changed its web-page to incorporate that information, which suggests
both that my information was accurate and that its substance does not
directly reflect on them, i.e.,AgoraInc. itself had nothing to do withGoldcor.

8. I delete posts on my blog to cover up for people.

8.
False. In the first place, I don’t usually delete posts. I might
modify them or make them private, if I think circumstances warrant it.
That is well within my rights. What circumstances? Well, if I feel
someone, say acyber-stalkingposeur
in Guatemala, is using my own writing to trash and flame me, for
instance. Why on earth should I be obliged to arm my detractors with my
own hard-won insights so they can be turned against me, for no other
reason but malice?

9. I “invited”Ryalsto come down toAgora’s office in Baltimore.

9. Another flat lie. I was NOT employed atAgoraat the time I wrote to Mr.Ryals, so I could scarcely invite him there.

Here
are the SUM TOTAL (5 ) of my emails to him. I challenge him to publish
any email from me where I invite him to Baltimore in 2005. He has
intentionally confused something from someone else’s email to mine and
blamed it on me, out of sheer malice. And he has used Stansberry’s name
in conjunction with mine, to smear me.

Here are my original emails to him. The first one asks about his allegations on the web. I had not yet been hired byAgoraand
I was worried about the allegations I’d read on the web and how it
might affect my credibility, especially since I was blogging about
finance by that time (see “Playing Monopoly in Charm City” June 2005,
Dissident Voice).

IN ORDER OF WRITING, MY EMAILS TORYALS:

(All my emails were published without my permission byRyals,
without any attempt to straighten out any of his misconceptions before
hand. I’ve asked various forums to remove his false statements a number
of times, as they are actionable libels. But most websites in the US do
not take down material without a court order or a notice of copyright
infringement. I used the latter to get my emails removed (not that there
was anything untoward in them), but simply on principle, sinceRyalshadn’t made any attempt to get at the truth of what had happened and was simply fabricating things to support his attacks on me.

You
might notice that some of my emails have been deleted from the web, but
if you compare the dates of these deleted mails, you’ll see they tally
exactly with the emails below.

I challenge Mr.Ryalsto produce ANY email where I have invited him to Baltimore. It is an out and out lie.

Because many of the linksRyalspastes into his sites are links from reputable journalists, they do contain many interesting facts that warrant exploration.

However,Ryals’ explanations of them is completely irresponsible, even insane, at times.

Gordon
Duff volunteers casually that he has “had George Tenet on speed-dial
for some years,” and that becomes “Duff is a CIA agent.” I work forAgora, so I must be CIA too.

How I can be CIA AND an illegal alien AND onAgora’s payroll AND a stock-broker, he fails to explain.

> Dear Mr. Ryall,
>
> I read with interest your articles on the net regardingAgora
> Publishing and the stock ventures of the founder, James Dale
> Davidson. However, I was led to believe that Bill Bonner a
> well-known copywriter and author is the founder. Can you please
> clarify this as I have had some dealings with the latter gentleman
> and am concerned about such connections. Could it be that you are
> mistaken in your accusations?
>
> Sincerely
>LilaRajiva

>> Dear Mr.Ryals,
>
> I did speak to Mr. Bonner about Porter Stansberry. He was very
> forthcoming and adhered to the position that he was not guilty of
> any legal wrong doing, such as pump and dump.
>
> He seemed a very open and sincere individual so I am a bit puzzled.
> It’s quite possible that some of his associates are involved in
> things he is not aware of.
>
> Or that they were only inexperienced or needlessly zealous, which
> was unfortunate, but may not be illegal.
>
> Do let me know if you come across anything else.
>
>LilaRajiva
>

> Dear Mr.Ryals:
>
> Thank you for all this information. I will certainly keep it in
>mind. I plan to work for Mr. Bonner only in a limited way and with
> nothing to do with his stock activities or selling. I am a writer
> and and planning on working on a book with him that has nothing to
> do with finances.
>
> I appreciate this information and do thank you for it. But I am not
> in a position to ascertain the truth of it and don’t have the time
> as well. I hope that you will be able to recoup your losses. I
> sincerely feel for you about that as I suffered similar losses
> through unscrupulous individuals.
>
> Kind regards
>LilaRajiva

I was hired to work atAgorabetween November, 2005 and January, 2006.

During
that time, I was also traveling and promoting my first book and working
on an article for another book (”One of the Guys,” Seal Press). I was
also getting ready to go abroad. In fact, I was out of the country for
most of 2006. That too is well-documented, from official and personal
records.

What could I have to do with things going on in Baltimore that year? Nothing.

More sliming byRyals.

In
2007, after difficulties over promotion and attribution of the book
which was released in 2007, I decided to leave. By that time, I’d had
to research dozens of pieces to find out who wrote what in theDailyReckoningcolumns, some of which were used for Mr. Bonner’s part of the book. That led to research into previousAgorabooks.
The company’s somewhat loose attitude toward attribution had me worried
that I might have incorporated material that was actually written by
some previous co-author who hadn’t been fully attributed. Going back
intoAgora’s history, I then saw some articles and statements showing that Mr. Davidson had been involved as recently as 2004.

This led me to think about what TonyRyalshad
written to me about Davidson, and it led me to drop a note to him in
2007. At that point, seeing my book and my pieces in support of Ron
Paul,Ryalsflew
into a rage and started attacking me as a “stock fraud,” “con artist,”
and “bimbo,” all over the web, even though I wrote back to him at length
explaining that I’d never written any newsletters there or sold stocks,
beyond a few investment notes that you can read below.

The
only investment report I wrote was one in 2006, recommending that
people sell Goldman Sachs. That was the prototype of all the fashionable
“Short Goldman” political and financial columns being tossed around
today. Writing that in 2006 was a whole different ball game.

[To
give credit where it's due, it was not my idea to turn the Goldman
research into an investment report. I was actually researching Goldman
for "Mobs," when I was in Argentina. I mentioned this to Mr. Bonner,
who was also suspicious of Goldman's trading success. I recall that he
asked about it to Kevin Kerr, an excellent trader who used to work atAgora, and Kerr was suspicious too.

Around
that time, Mr. Bonner was also trying to get me to do more interesting
work than editing and he suggested I write up my research as an
investment report on Goldman Sachs. This I did and a part of it was
published as a cover story onAgoraaffiliate/subsidiary,
Money Week, a prestigious English business magazine. Later, the
report was sold through another newsletter, under someone else's name
without my permission.

Apparently,
the assignment sparked off resentment against me in the company so that
for most of 2007-07, some individuals were intent on defaming me,
undermining my work, or otherwise making it difficult for me to
continue. Nonetheless, I was offered a position there (I refused it)
and Mr. Bonner did write me a good testimonial, even though I have also
refused to use it, on principle.

Let me be clear. I no longer feel a need to revisit this issue.

The only reason I do so is because of the continuing malicious liesRyalskeeps publishing about me, at every turn, with the clear intention of smearing me by association and thus discrediting my work.

As
I mentioned before, Mr. Bonner did apologize for what happened in 2007
and recently also written me an apology about a recent attribution
issue. For me, this is enough.

I had a correspondence once with you regarding Davidson. I wonder what happened to your case?

EMAIL SIX

(written in response toRyalsattacking me viciously all over the web, and then published byRyalson
the web without my permission and retained there by Indymedia despite
requests from me to take it down. In other words, Indymedia supports the
use of copyright theft AND malicious libel, as long as the targets are
not communists).

Hi Tony,
Yes I did say I wouldn't be involved inAgora's stock selling in 2005.
And guess, what. It's 2008 and I haven't been. I have never sold a
single stock for them.
As for Jim Davidson, I believe his association withAgorahas been
terminated for some years and no one there defends him. The investment
advice that I've read in theAgoranewsletters that I've followed has
been basically useful - and provided at very reasonable terms. Too bad
I haven't always followed it.
Do I have a problem with some of their "hard sell" language? Yes, I
do. And I expressed it to several people there quite vociferously and
incessantly. I think some of them became quite bored and annoyed with
me over it.
But not all of their advisories use those tactics. Many are quite
low-key and all of them do give you your money back.
In any case, the company is very free-wheeling and there are lots of
very different people doing very different things.
I decided at the time that it was unfair to tar everyone with the
mistakes of a few and chose to work on Mr. Bonner'sDailyReckoning
column as an idea person, research assistant, and editor from late
2005- mid 2007. And to write a book with him.
I decided that the good of bringing some political home truths to
people in the influential financial world far outweighed the bad of
possibly having people like yourself leap to wrong conclusions. In an
important election year, that was actually a no-brainer for me.
How is that wrong?
In 2005, when Mr. Bonner approached me about the book, he did indeed
intend it to be a pop sociology book and not financial. And most of
the book, even in its finished version, is about politics and history.
We added a financial and investment section later mainly because the
publisher needed that to sell the book, since finance is the field
where Mr. Bonner is best-known.
Besides, the investment advice Mr. Bonner gave in the book was
extremely general. Not was it necessarily what I think. In a joint
effort, it's not possible to always agree on all things. I think I
mention that in the preface to the book.
Funny thing is if you had followed his advice over the last couple of
years, you'd have doubled your money...
FYI, here's an account of how the book was written:www.thehindubusinessline.com/2007/11/23/stories/2007112350660900.htm
As for my qualifications, you're wrong there too. I have an
undergraduate degree in economics and history and did graduate work in
International Relations (MA)- where I read a healthy quantity of
economics. I currently contribute to the whackonomics column of the
Hindu, which, if you've ever read it, answers questions on finance and
economics from people in the field. I have also studied the market and
trading on my own for seven years. I think I can hold my own in
understanding how finance works in the real world. In any case, if you
read our book, you will see a large part of it is a debunking of the
notion of economics as a science like physics. We think a knowledge of
history and human psychology is more important. Since I have graduate
training in history, politics, and philosophy, I'm pretty well
qualified I think.
By the way, the year before I wrote the book about Abu Ghraib, I was
making (trying to make) my living as a swing trader...so my interest
in finance is quite long standing and preceded my social activism. I
see no conflict between the two, actually.
On your other accusations:
I was invited to speak at BFI Consulting's conference to promote
"Mobs, Messiahs and Markets." I wasn't going to talk about investments
but about how governments destroy savings. Had I chosen to speak about
anything to do with investment, it would have been about the global
real estate market, which I know quite well.
As for Dr.Mark Skousen, I have never met him personally, but he was
kind enough to blurb our book and point out errors in the MS. I owe
him gratitude at least for that. From what I know, he is an erudite
and accomplished author/teacher in the areas of economics and
philosophy.
I am also aware that he has worked with the CIA, but that is all I
know and I don't think you are right to draw any conclusions about me
from that. I hope you are not naive enough to believe that everyone
connected with the CIA routinely engages in water boarding on
weekends. It's a large, mostly bureaucratic organization.
The fact that I might have accepted an invitation to speak at the same
conference where Dr. Skousen was also speaking says nothing. I also
correspond with an Indian friend of (the late) Milton Friedman. I
suppose you would say that makes me complicit in South American
torture, as Naomi Klein seems to think. Actually, I consider Dr.
Friedman a statist and far from being libertarian. but I doubt that
even statist economics inevitably leads to a painful death.
Finally, my birth data is not on the Internet, because I don't give it
out. Put it down to the fragile egos of women over the age of thirty.
If there's anything else you'd like to know, please feel free to drop
me an email, instead of taking it to an Internet web page.

Kind regards.LilaRajiva

THAT IS THE LAST EMAIL I EVER SENT HIM.

Now,
please check the number of times he has posted all over the net any
time he hears my name, even if it's from a third party. The figure runs
into the scores, even though a number of sites were ethical enough to
take down his posts after I explained the story. Even so, there is no
forum on which he hasn't tried to smear me or get into battle with the
forum's owners to spread his lies.

Notice, how his story keeps changing.

First, Porter Stansberry invited him down to Baltimore; then, when he got angry with me, it becameLilaRajivaand Porter Stansberry.

First, it was Mark Skousen who worked for the CIA (true enough) and then it becameLilaRajivaand Skousen and Bill Bonner, who work for the CIA.

First, it was Bud Burrell who threatened him (true enough); then it's Bud Burrell (whom I don't know) andLilaRajiva who threatened him.

In other words, he just adds the name of whoever he's angry with to whatever allegation he is spewing.

Yet
these clear signs of either derangement or disinformation are ignored
by Indymedia, to whom truth doesn't matter as long as they can smear
whoever they see as their opponents (and I have no idea why they should
consider me so, since I am fairly anti-corporatist as well).

NOTE: there is NOT ONE WORD in all these emails inviting him to Baltimore or to any otherAgoraoffice anywhere.

To be truthful, I originally didn't read whatRyalshad
to say in any great depth, because it all sounded like the confused
ranting of someone who was extremely upset. Throughout 2006-07 I was
much more involved in researching the housing bubble fraud and tying
together the story of Goldman Sachs so that, for me, the pump-and-dump
part of the story was much less interesting, as it was more limited in
scope.... or. so it seemed to me at the time.

Indeed, the only reason I became interested again in whatRyalswas
saying was that during the promotion of the book I began to become
alarmed by the loose attitude of some (note, some)
editors/copywriters/publishers to factual accuracy, attribution, and
related copyright matters.

This was one of the reasons I left.

About a month later, I remembered what I'd read on the web and decided to find out what happened toRyals' case. My email to him (a few polite noncommittal words) is the last email (see above) I ever sent him.

That was in 2008. And again, there's not a word in it inviting anyone anywhere.

As soon asRyalsgot
my mail, he went to my blog and noticed I was supporting Ron Paul. This
sent him into a wild rage and he began attacking me, both at the blog
and all over stock forums. And that has continued almost non-stop for
three and a half years, escalating to wilder and wilder statements.

Update 6 (September 28, 2010)

I just came acrossthis site, which hosts some poems and essays fromRyals(see below). From appearances, it seems to be legitimate and it gives some information about his motives and background.

This is what I get from it:

1.Ryalsclaims
to be a small investor/stock trader, who invested his inheritance
through Charles Schwab in an investment (Endovasc) sold by James Dale
Davidson, and lost all his money. This seems to have been in 2001-2002.

He has posted since then under multiple aliases on theRaging Bullmessage-board,
a frequent haunt of paid "bashers" who pose as cybervigilantes looking
out for naive investors. In reality, many of these so-called vigilantes
have turned out to be in the pay of short-selling hedge-fundsand their associates.Ryalsmight
be one of them, or he might be posting disinformation that helps them,
or he might genuinely be a defrauded investor who's driven himself a bit
crazy over his loss. This is not to say that there isn't some truth in
what he alleges. But it is misconstrued and mangled to the point that it
actually constitutes a hindrance to anyone researching these topics
seriously.

3.
He seems to make his money from a small farming (coffee business) of
some kind in Guatemala (which is where his IP addresses originate). The
outfit is called Tostaduria, Antigua, and his writings on coffee,
politics, finance, and other things, are hosted by a budget travel site
based in Central America. In earlier versions, this site seemed to be
very much on the left, as you would think if it hostedRyals' writing. However,the home pageon June 12, 2011, displayed an animus toward Islam ("gutter religion", "Mohammed (May s*** be upon him") that's quiteoutlandish, especially coming from a self-described progressive site.Notice also thatRyals, thoughposing as some one on the far left, actually supports establishment Democrats,rushing to the defense of Bill and Hillary Clinton over the Vince Foster story, for instance.

Ryals'
unwavering position that there is no such thing as naked short-selling
is in fact a hallmark of the thinking of the financial establishment,which
makes me suspect that someone or other from that bloc subsidizes or
feeds his rants in some way. It is interesting, for example, that while
he rants about my "connection" toAgora,he never mentions leading figures currently working in that outfit.

Some of them arewell-connected to Wall Street and thereby to the hedge-fund community.Elements in that community, asDeep Capturenotes, arein business with organized crimeand
have a history of bashing people on the net anonymously, in the most
scurrilous terms. That suggests to me that some of the anonymous libels
of me (not those byRyals, but other comments) might well have come from someone with such connections. Seehere for a forum discussion,in
which the editor of Barron's complains about an alleged threat made to
him, which turns out to have been made in response to anonymous
threats/slanders posted by the cybervigilantes connected to the
hedge-fund community.

Ryalsis clearly in touch with Barrons' editors, Dow Jones newswire reporters, and the SEC. And, ifRyalsis linked to them in some way, it makes sense that he never references them in his wild accusations.

You'd think ifRyalswere
seriously interested in researching the company, he would at least
mention long-time critic and former division chief Christoph Amberger's
analysis in his posts.Nothing
of the sort. His attention (and venom) is focused elsewhere, on a
motley band of right-leaning figures, including Lew Rockwell, Patrick
Byrne, and Jim Davidson, who have only one thing in common obviously.

They are all critics of the Federal Reserve and the paper money regime.

4.Ryalsexhibits
a deep-seated hatred of Christianity and the Pope in his writing. This
is observation not psychoanalysis, since none is needed. His mental
state speaks for itself.

5.
He writes under multiple emails, probably as a result of being banned
from various forums or having his account deactivated for using too many
aliases and posting off-topic. Apparently he sees this as some kind of
global censorship of his stock investigations.

[I
can't say whether or not he has been censored in other contexts, but I
certainly never asked to censor his views on anything, except to ask him
to remove false and malicious statements about me. Besides, I have no
motive to, since I also think the financial world is riddled with fraud
and corruption and have written a lot about it. The only difference is
that I don't make any distinctions between different types of fraud,
whereasRyals(along
with the establishment media in general) prefers to focus on
management-related fraud or stock-pumping and money-laundering, while
ignoring "activist" hedge-fund/speculator -related fraud. This often
boils down to a political division, since several libertarian activists
seem to show up in government cases of tax evasion or share manipulation
or licensing issues (eg.this pieceon intelligence analyst-turned-stock promoter, Bob Chapman) whereasspeculators and banks, even those committing much larger and more consequential frauds, seem to walk free.

As one of the targets of his rants says:

"Your
delight in attacking responsible people and companies and
indiscriminately lumping them into a category with bad actors is a
destructive way for someone to spend their time on the Internet. You
carefully hide behind the anonymity of the Internet. I have no need to
do so. "(Ronald Logan, Atty., Logan & Geotas, Phoenix, Arizona)

6. Again, as I note below, I think theDeep Capturewebsite is closer to the truth than the other sites that try to identifyRyals(Causalnexus,
Fraudwatch?). Both of these claim he's a con man called Joe Cafasso.
But somehow the profiles there don't match what is known ofRyals.

[June
12: I have rewritten parts of this section, since there was some
repetition in the old version. I've also added some new links I came
across aboutRyals}

So who isRyals?

Clarence AnthonyRyalswas born in Texas(could this be him?)and
is a small investor/trader, who lost his inheritance in the market.
That much seems to be accurate, but the rest is a mish-mash of links,
names, and events that sometimes have only a tenuous connection to each
other.

As I just said, this is either becauseRyalshas
a mental problem...or because someone pays him to write as if he does.
You'll notice that his writings on other topics besides finance (like
his pieces on cocoa) display none of the confusion and contradiction
evident in his comments on naked short-selling.

While
he doesn't sound like the professional con artist described at
CausalNexus, he associates on boards with some people who might well be.
He has become something of an eccentric local fixture, showing up inaccounts of travelers to Guatemala.(That is, if the "cocoa man" is really him, and not a ficitious persona).

More to the point, and quite oddly,Ryals'
name has also shown up in several newspaper articles in the MSM, and he
seems to have corresponded with several reputed print journalists,
including Carol Remond, Christopher Byron, Gary Weiss, and blogger Jeff
Mitchell, among others. There is a degree of attention-seeking in his
name-dropping about the people he "knows" and their interest in his
incessant self-referential cut-and-paste posts.

I
notice that in the past few months he's stopped referencing me in his
posts. I think maybe it sank into his head that I've been telling the
truth.

{Update:Feb 15 2011: Unfortunately, this hiatus was short-lived]

Update 5 (September 10, 2010):

I’ve made all except two of my previous posts onAgoraprivate,
as there isn’t any longer a valid reason for them to be aired in the
public realm. They’ll stay that way, unless I see some further need to
republish them. (Added: May 3, 2011: Since then,Ryals’s renewed libels, as well as other developments, have led me to keep most of my posts up).

Internet
disclosures are permanent and very intrusive and I made those only
after carefully weighing any personal injury they might cause against
my own right to defend my credibility and the public interest at stake.
My judgment at this point is that my privacy, as well as the privacy of
the people I’ve cited, trumps any public interest in the matter.

So,
the only posts still public are this one and another responding to web
libel directed against me. These two will remain public as long as those
libels remain on the net.

Update 4 (June 26, 2010):

Re: the accusation byRyals(multiple
posted) that I created a “vanity” bio. This is rubbish too. You can’t
actually create a “vanity” bio. There are a number of criteria for an
entry, and an entry that doesn’t meet those criteria will be removed in
short order.

So that’sRyals’
imagination. My bio was originally created by someone who liked the Abu
Ghraib book. I didn’t know about it and found out purely by accident.
Originally, wikipedia also had a photo of me posted there, which I had
removed - something I surely wouldn’t have done, if I was interested in
self-promotion. That was in 2006.

Shortly
after, I wrote in support of the 9-11 truth movement. It was at that
point that someone at wikipedia decided I didn’t deserve an entry and
tried to remove my page. The discussion ended with my entry being
retained. That actually happened twice and had everything to do with my
writing on Zionism and 9-11, since Wikipedia is controlled on certain
subjects by a Zionist cabal, to which Gary Weiss, allegedly, belongs.
Weiss is highly critical of Patrick Byrne and the whole
anti-naked-short-selling campaign, whereas, in general and with some
caveats, I support it. Weiss is, allegedly, protected by Jimmy Wales,
the founder/owner of Wikipedia. I know nothing about Wales, beyond what I
read. In fact, I first heard Wales’ name from theRyals.

In
2008-09, when there was an issue about the attribution of certain
articles, a close friend added pieces to the existing list of my
articles at the wikipedia entry. Nothing wrong with that. There was
nothing promotional about the list. It was a factual record of the
truth. I blogged about that and aboutDeep Capture, Weiss andRyals.
In July-August 2009, a pro-Zionist editor at wikipedia saw my blog post
(which was supportive of DC) and immediately tried to eliminate my wiki
entry again. The editor also tried to expunge the wikipedia entry for
theGetAbstractbusiness
award, which is given out by a libertarian business outfit in
Switzerland and is a well-known, well-regarded and influential award,
cited in all major media. That shows you what the political agenda ofwikipediais.

**My
credentials are exactly as I’ve said they are and they can be verified
quite easily by anyone who puts in the effort and uses their
intelligence. More than that I’m unwilling to put on the net, given that
my blog is fairly controversial and I’m an immigrant writing about
politics here. I travel widely and spend a lot of time outside the
country, which is why I regard myself as an unofficial expat. In a
while, I’ll put up some of my doctoral work, as well as testimonials
(suitably scrubbed) as verification.

Another example.Ryalsclaims that I must beMsid(a wikipedia editor whoeditedJames Davidson’s entry there).

Now take a look at theMsid profile.
Msid is (or claims to be) a biosciences student from somewhere in
northern Europe. She edited the Davidson entry in early November 2005,beforeI’d even been hired byAgora.
At the time I was still teaching and was working on the release of my
first book, “The Language of Empire” . As you can imagine, I was swamped
with work and with articles and PR connected with the book…. as any
writer would be. Fiddling with a stranger’swikipediapage would be thelastthing
I’d have time for, even if you assume I was engaged in some kind of
global conspiracy to cover up for an Anglophile stock-promoter/political
activist I’d never laid eyes on and had only heard about fromRyals’Indymediaposting
in the first place. What’s more, a brown-skinned, black-haired,
middle-aged Indian humanities scholar who relies on her web reputation
for her credibility would surely do something a tad easier and smarter
than moonlight as a blue-eyed (presumably), twenty-something
Scandinavian science student whose email, IP address, appearance and
identity could easily be verified bywikipedia.

Update 2, June 13, 2010):I’ve noticed that severalIndymediaoutlets (seehereandhere)are now deleting/hidingRyals’
posts, not because they’re censoring the content (which would be wrong)
but because it’s obvious that he’s posting for reasons quite other than
what he states. He’s google-bombing and using Indymedia as a PR tool
rather than an information outlet. Add to that, cross-posting, endless
self-referential links, repetition,ad hominem,and vicious twisting of facts. Recently, I also noticedthis allegationthatRyalsis actually a well-known confidence man called Joe Cafasso. Thatdoesn’t seem too plausible to me, but who knows…..

In any case, what is clear is that there seems to be a long streak of confusion and disinformation of some kind inRyalsposts, as even fellow message-board aficionadosand anti-NSS critics have noted:

“Mark [Cuban, ofBlog
Maverick], do us a favor and introduce an ignore feature to your blog.
This will be a very interesting topic and I’d like to put TonyRyalson
ignore so I don’t have to wade through 50 pages of him cutting and
pasting stuff and self indulging his ego with fragments of illiterate
sentences that adds nothing to the conversation but instead clogs any
threads of rational discussion.”

Update 1:I’ve added a few facts/explanations to this response (originally posted atIndymedia),sincethe posterRyalsthen did what cyberstalkers and flamers like to do - returned and twisted even my innocuous defense into something different.

(Added onFeb 15, 2011: I am using his name in my revisions/updates because he no longer rushes out to attack when mentioned, which was his old m.o.)

1.
I do not know, have never met, and have never corresponded with Porter
Stansberry, James Davidson, Bud Burrell, or Gary Weiss.Or Jimmy Wales.I’m certainly not “covering up” for them or for anyone else atAgoraInc. or atDeep Capture. Many of the allegations/facts aboutAgoracited bythis posterRyalshave actually beentaken without attribution from research first posted at my blogand then twisted around to suit this poster’s agenda.

2. I did not remove Mr. Davidson’s name from anywhere onwikipedia, nor have I ever corresponded with Gary Weissor Jimmy Wales onwikipediaabout Davidson. That can be verified by looking up the record atwikipedia. I contribute once in a while to comments atDeep Capture, a site which is highly CRITICAL of Mr. Weiss. I’m not involved inDeep Capturein any other way, and I’ve never received any compensation from them for anything.

I encountered and corresponded with someone called “Mantanmoreland” when I came across his address and comments NOT atwiki, but at some internet forums like the SEC website, where it wasTHIS POSTERRyalswho brought his name up:

[Overstock
CEO Patrick Byrne and Judd Bagley contend that Mantanmoreland is Weiss
and have posted as much on my blog. I tend to agree with them, but since
I don't know for sure, and because Weiss has himself denied it, I
prefer not to make that equation in public, since it might be construed
as libelous. Also, the important point I'm making is that I didn't run
into Weiss on a wikipedia forum, nor did I erase Davidson's name from
wikipedia. That is pure magical thinking on the part of the stalker. I
ran into "Mantanmoreland" on the SEC forum while I was trying to track
down the stalker's libels and respond to them. I only corresponded with
Mantanmoreland to find out who my stalker was and for no other purpose.
He said he did not know. I forwarded the emails I had received from the
stalker to him. At no point did Mantanmoreland ever inform me he was
Weiss or that he edited wikipedia, or anything of the kind. Our exchange
was solely about the identity and motivation of the stalker, who had
bashed us, as well as several other people, including Professor James
Angel of Georgetown, who made a film about naked short-selling that set
the poster off].

4.
I’ve never sold a stock to the public in my life and I’ve never sold a
stock in a tip-sheet. Ergo, I cannot be a “stock fraud” or “con artist.”I’m
exactly what I say I am - a writer and former school/college teacher.
Any investment analysis I’ve ever offered can been seen below.

Note (Feb 15, 2011):I’ve
modified and added links to the rest of my original Indymedia post so
as to include new information/ links that I’ve come up with.

On the other hand,the posterRyalsis a known basher, who’s hadhis account deactivatedfor using too many aliases, and who has a history of posting alongside bashers, such asHasherand Janice Shell, atRaging Bull.
He also associates with some internet posters who are proven
extortioners and felons (names deliberately withheld). He lives in
Guatemala and posts under dozens of IPs,names, and email addresses.

In this posthe references one of his own aliases deceptively to support his claims.

One of his email aliases isbiodog0; others areWilliam Knowles,endoscam; andwolfblitzzer0.That last alias islisted in the original complaint in the Zwebner suitas
an alias of another stock-board poster, which is how I originally
confused the two (I posted my apology to this gentleman at Atomic Bob’s
forum. Some of the links to that site have now vanished and been
replaced by a most fascinating disclaimer that some of the people
posting there were “role-playing” and that their utterances were not to
be taken at face-value as serious assertions of fact. These assertions
have appeared recently. I can’t say exactly, but I noticed the
disclaimer in the last month or so. From the elaborately defensive
posture, it seems the site owner might have been informed that some of
the posts there went beyond the legal pale. Question: IsRyalsone of the “roles” being played, as I’ve suspected for a while? In other words, it “he” simply a fictitious persona?)

[Besides that,busholini0, another alias said to be this other man's,shows up in a post byRyalsas a term he favors.
So, although the two are apparently different individuals, there is
evidence of some kind of association. What and how relevant, I can't
say.]

Ryalshas posted gloatingly that he was “sued by Zwebner” and indulged in some malevolent personal attacks on Zwebner.

Now,
Zwebner might or might not be what he is characterized as, but simply
as a student of human nature, I find it unbelievable that anyone
supposedly so traumatized by financial losses would spend so much time
and energy viciously attacking people who did not personally injure him.
It doesn’t ring true. Devastated victims do not go around spewing
malevolence at anyone who crosses their path for ten years after their
loss, using gutter language and allegations. I myself lost a
considerable sum following bad advice. My reaction to that was to not
want to see or read the missives of the people whose advice I followed. I
didn’t want to talk about the loss, was ashamed of it, and turned my
energies elsewhere for several years.

[Note:Because the other person,Villasenor, is an Elgindy-related basher, I refer toRyalsas Elgindy-related. As it turns out, it appears I was wrong to identify them as one person. HoweverRyalsalso
posts under multiple aliases on stock forums, shares similar -sounding
email addresses, and was identified as the same person in a lawsuit
brought by Michael Zwebner. Janice Shell, who also vehemently attacks
naked short-selling on the same stock boards and is rumored to have
several sidekicks, includingRyals, is closely connected to Elgindy. A self-styled consumer protector, she was later shown to beprofiting from her bashing..So "Elgindy-associated" stands. Itry
to not to use the poster's name, since when he's named anywhere, he
immediately shows up, twists the post around and reposts it multiple
times with fresh accusations added.]

5. I worked as a part-time contract editor/writer for Bill Bonner’sDaily Reckoningcolumn,
where I did research, editing and writing from late 2005-early 2006 up
till the fall of 2007. I know nothing about the other departments of his
company and was never involved with anyone else there. I worked
directly under Mr. Bonner and Mr. Wiggin.

Most
of the time I worked on the book I was abroad and worked through the
internet, with very limited contact with anyone except Mr. Bonner.I
returned to the US in 2007 for the publication of the book and then
again left to go abroad, shortly after the release of the book.

6. Ifthe posterRyalshas a problem with Davidson, Stansberry, or Bonner or with Weiss or Burrell,it is very odd that he should spend his time bashing various libertarian bystanders on public forums. Why doesn’t he just address his enemies directly?

[Notice there is no posting at theDaily Reckoningsite by this poster, no libels of Davidson, Stansberry, Bonner, or Weisson their websites. Why not? ]

Correction: This isn’t an objection…they might just be deleting the material.

[Added on April 22, 2011:It's odd that dozens of people who actually do sell stocks and do know all the people atAgora(Davidson, Stansberry etc.) whomRyalsreferences are never trashed by him. Long-timeAgoraassociates
actively involved in selling stock or real estate newsletters, and far
more embedded in the company, are mysteriously ignored. This is surely
very suggestive.] June 12, 2011: It’s also odd thatwhen writing about other subjects, like cocoa,Ryalsis able to write coherentlyand logically, even fluently, about complicated things. But on the subject of finance and politics, not so. Then he resorts tocopy-pasting other people’s half-digested articlesand
recycling links referencing his previous posts, over and over,
confusing and contradicting himself at every turn, often willfully, and
exhibiting a petty malevolence and fury if he is rebutted. This again
suggests that his financial postings conceal a deeper agenda.

7. I leftAgorain October 2007. My contract for the book was with John Wiley and my royalties are paid through them.Agorais
not mentioned anywhere in that contract. Any promotion of the book that
I do is as a co-author, with a contractual obligation to publicize the
book.I’ve never been paid to blog byAgora, as this poster implies, and I’ve never sought any other compensation or advantage for blogging. Quite the contrary.

[The dispute I had was over whether the book with Bonner was anAgorabook. This point was never clarified and it led to a number of problems that undermined my original agreement with Mr. Bonner.that have been resolved.However,and I've put the issue behind me.as there's little to be done at this point].

8.
I have never harassed or stalked the poster, as he claims. The opposite
is true. I contacted him in 2005 to find out more about allegations he (the posterRyals) had plastered over the net aboutAgora. He sent me emails alleging that there was a vast on-going fraud centered around an investment of his with Mr. Davidson.At
my interview I asked Mr. Bonner, as well as Mr. Wiggin, if Davidson
still worked there. They said no and actually distanced themselves from
him.*

Quote:“We had a lot of bad publicity about that. We’re trying to put it behind us.”

I toldthe posterRyalsthat,
as can be seen from the email he has cited, and had no further exchange
with him until November 2007, when I left the company because of
differences over the promotion of the book, copyright, and other
matters. I felt I had been treated very shabbily and thought I should
find out more.

(*This was one of many things that turned out to be not quite as they told me).

At that point,the posterRyalsfound from my blog that I was a Ron Paul supporter and had had some articles published on theLew Rockwellsite.
This changed his attitude toward me, which until then had been
respectful and admiring. He flew into a rage and flamed my blog with
dozens of posts calling me a “stock fraud,” “bimbo,” “con artist,” and
so on. Meanwhile, in my response, I only asked him very civilly why he
couldn’t have just asked me any questions over email rather than take it
to the internet (see email cited).

That’s the sum of my correspondence with him, a total of45
polite letters over 2 years, the first two quite sympathetic to his
story, and one message no more than a sentence in length. Thisthe posterRyalscalls “stalking.”

On the other hand, since November 2007,Ryalshas
pseudonymously* flamed my blog dozens of time, all the while libeling
me on Google in scores of vicious rants that connect me via six degrees
of separation to everyone from the Pentagon shooter to Christopher Cox,
in multiple highly-visible forums on the web.

(*He uses multiple false emails and IP addresses, even if, as he now claims, his name is genuine)

He’s
attacked me every time I’ve tried to correct his false statements. He’s
attacked me every time I’ve posted about a conference or business
contact. The object is obviously to cause me maximum personal and
professional damage, with no concern for the truth or falsity of what
he’s saying. His writing displays the sadism and emotional fixation that
are part of the classic profile of stalkers. I strongly suspect him, or
his associates, of hacking my email and blog, or inciting/provoking
others indirectly to do so. It has come to the point that I am looking
at professional security experts to protect me and my family.

What’s
more, I suspect that someone must be paying him to write like this
because he doesn’t seem to have any known means of support and has
admitted to being penniless. He rarely criticizes the major banks and
speculators involved in the ongoing fraud on our capital markets, so
it’s more than plausible that his rants are related to an effort to
discredit those whodocriticize them, or they are intended to confuse the issue.

[May
7: I went back over his posts and noticed that has has lately started
tacking on references to Goldman Sachs and John Paulson onto his cut and
paste diatribes, possibly in response to my analysis. Again, this kind
of thing makes me suspect more and more that there is some kind of
disinformation being pumped through him. I might be wrong. But no other
explanation makes sense at this point.

This doesn’t mean all his targets are necessarily innocent. It means that he isn’t either.

I’ve
counseled him to stop lashing out at innocent people in his rage,
several times. Libel is as surely a crime as fraud. Slander is as
serious an injury as physical attack.

Most
experts counsel not responding in any way to cyber-bullying of this
sort and staying off the web altogether. Unfortunately, as a blogger, I
can’t do this.

9. Any information related toAgorahas
been disclosed on my blog carefully not to “cover up” (a quite
laughable allegation, given my outspokenness about them both in person
and on the web), but to avoid legal trouble and to respect the right to
privacy and presumption of innocence of the individuals named.

Claiming
to act in “the public interest” doesn’t mean you can be defamatory with
impunity, even under current first amendment law.

10.
Hundreds of malicious, sweeping, undocumented, and highly speculative
allegations do nothing to add to the poster’s credibility (or toIndymedia’s). It only serves to make a mockery of community media and hinder the efforts of real activists/journalists.

I wonder if such posts would be allowed if the targets hadn’t been libertarians but socialists.

I seriously doubt it.

For shame.

LilaRajiva

PS.I stand by the remark that I made in early 2008 (after I had leftAgoraand
was no longer receiving compensation for them in any way and without
any solicitation on their part). I remarked that if you had followed
Bonner’s ‘trade of the decade’ (sell the stock market, buygold)
you would indeed have doubled your money by 2008. I didn’t do that to
“promote Bonner” . It was simply a truthful observation and I brought it
up in my exchange with the poster to defend myself from his charge that
my book was somehow inaccurate or misleading. It was not. Read it and
see.